Marshville, North Carolina.
Typical home $325,613 (+2.9% in a year). Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$946 (+124%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $9,160 +3%
- $316,452$325,613 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $54,987 +20%
- $270,625$325,613 since Sep 2021
Monthly payment to buy the typical home
Home value × that month's 30-year mortgage rate, 20% down, principal and interest. This is the line households feel: prices and rates compound each other.
- Marshville$1,709
- North Carolina$1,743
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 19 years.
Typical home values in Marshville, NC rose 2.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Marshville, Union County, North Carolina
Marshville is a town of 2,522 people in Union County. Unemployment in Union County was 3.4% in August 2026, and the county had 5.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in manufacturing, then professional services.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 23 October 2026 from the figures here, a list of nearby places and what it knows. It can be wrong or out of date.
What it’s like
The place. Marshville is a small town in Union County, North Carolina, with a quiet, small-town pace. Homes here cost less than is typical for the county, and the town's commutes run fairly long, with most people driving to jobs elsewhere in the area. Few adults here hold a four-year degree compared with many places, and a modest share of people work from home.
Work. Residents work mainly in manufacturing, professional and business services, transport, warehouses and utilities, and in schools, hospitals and social care. Among the largest workplaces in Marshville are Food Lion, Darling Ingredients, which makes animal feed, and Byrum Heating AC, a heating and air-conditioning contractor. Union County has added jobs over the past year, and unemployment there has eased slightly.
Things to do. Marshville is surrounded by small waterways, with Beaverdam Creek and Barkers Branch among the rivers a short drive away. For a longer outing, the Pee Dee National Wildlife Refuge is a protected area a longer drive away. The seasons are mild overall, with hot summers, cool winters, only a dusting of snow, and plenty of rain through the year.
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- 953households
- 16%of adults have a degree
- 27 mintypical commute
- 10%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Union County had 78,177 jobs in 2025, 5.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 53° and lows near 30°; warmest in July, with highs near 91° and lows near 69°. About 2 inches of snow and 48 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Monroe Southeast weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Marshville
- Monroe NC OperationPoultry catching services132
- Food LionGrocery stores84
- Darling IngredientsAnimal feed mills manufacturing48
- Byrum Heating ACPlumbing, heating, and air-conditioning contractor24
- Piedmont Commercial RoofingRoofing contractors22
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 5 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 310 people in all. Not listed: many offices and banks, which need not report to OSHA; military bases, whose staff OPM withholds; and, in about half the states, city and county governments.
Natural hazards
- TornadoesVery high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Marshville’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively high. It is meant for planning, not a substitute for a local risk assessment or a flood map: FEMA’s index.
From the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2020 census and its American Community Survey (2020–2024 five-year estimates), and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. A survey, so each figure has a margin of error, and figures it is not sure of are left out. More on Union County and the Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC metro.
Marshville home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Marshville$325,613
- North Carolina$332,159
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Marshville listings — the market is cooling.
When this market ran hot
Each cell is that month's year-on-year home-value growth. Read left to right, top row is the latest year — the 2021–22 band is the boom.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Marshville36.75%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Marshville40
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Marshville8
Zip codes with a Marshville address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Marshville — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.